Composite sandwich structures have been used in aircraft for many years. Most are based on honeycomb cores with relatively high modulus composite skin materials. Today, with increasing use of composites in many other markets, designing structural sandwich composites has become very important. Most of these applications use relatively low modulus composite skins and a low density core other than honeycomb. The mechanics and the failure mode of these sandwich structures differ significantly from honeycomb core structures.
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